I’m really starting to wonder if what Eddy ‘accidentally’ said about Emma dying next week during the panel the other day was true. I know that Jen says in the post that she has agreed to come back for one episode next season but that could easily be for a flashback. Or something like LOST where all of the cast reappear for the final scene.
I suspect they want us to think she is going to die, which is why they have allowed her to make this announcement, and that in actual fact she won’t. It certainly raises the stakes for the finale knowing that they really could kill her if they wanted to. I wonder if that one episode next season would be the first, or last (if the reboot doesn’t work and they want to include her in the shows final episode).